March 16, 2010
5:39 p.m.
I understand the problem. How about something to indicate that abbreviations less than 3 characters are strongly discouraged? Could you also address case sensitivity? For Java, I may only handle the full and 3 letter versions, plus the full word "only". Stephen On 16 March 2010 17:16, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
Below is an addition to zic.8 that might cover the concerns raised.
Zic is now liberal in what abbreviations it accepts; since we can't know whether others have used this liberality, I'm inclined to keep it.
--ado
.PP Names (such as month names) must be in English and are case insensitive. Abbreviations, if used, must be unambiguous in context.